Schools

Where the facilities are a school, provisions may be relevant to deal with matters such as:

• Development constraints re adjacent operating school facilities(see Form 4 in Appendix 2)

• School representative (see Form 1 in Appendix 2)

• Dates for service commencement (see note to Clause 14.4 in Appendix 1)

• Use of the facilities - additional hours, community use, third party use (see Form 6 in Appendix 2)

• Janitors (see note to Schedule Part 12 in Appendix 1)

• Malicious damage and vandalism (see Form 5 in Appendix 2)

In relation to vandalism, experience suggests that the private sector has little ability to manage vandalism risk once the facilities have been designed (including any anti-vandalism design features and security systems) and built. As a consequence, only limited risk transfer was generally achieved in previous schools PPP/NPD projects and such risk transfer as was achieved was fully priced. The recommended standard position, therefore, is for the Authority to retain the financial risk of vandalism damage to the facilities, by reimbursing the service provider for the costs of reactive maintenance.